Since the right loves citing Rasmussen polls, I decided this one is worth highlighting: In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided. Republicans are actually losing […]
Image via Wikipedia FishBowlDC has obtained an internal FOX News memo, where it looks like they are tired of all the mistakes lately and making changes: Subject: Quality Control We had a mistake on Newsroom today when a wrong book cover went on screen during a guest segment, the kind of thing that can fall […]
In an absolute display of disrespect to the soldiers who were injured and died at the Ft. Hood massacre a Tea Party supporter uses the tragedy to make a threat: A woman who allegedly threatened the Times Herald of Port Huron, Mich., saying she would take a gun to the newspaper and “do what they […]
Spending the day yesterday on the Veterans Day Project, I missed out on a lot of great stories (though I believe the cause was worth it). One of the big stories was how Jon Stewart totally eviscerated Sean Hannity for using fake footage to inflate the numbers of last week’s Tea Party protest outside of […]
While Republicans continue holding up the governor races in Virginia and New Jersey as evidence of some sort of revitalization, other indicators have been overlooked – ones that show the Republicans, and the tea party movement in general, are not doing too well. Remember back on Labor Day when there was a huge tea party […]
This is a priceless move by several House Republicans yesterday: When it’s a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what’s a GOP lawmaker to do? We’ll give you one guess… Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post […]
Oh this is such sweet irony. As wingnut talker Mark Levin took to the stage today at the tea party protest on Capital Hill the U.S. flag takes a dive to the ground.
Teabaggers are descending upon Capital Hill: Thousands of Tea Party activists descended on Washington Thursday to protest the trillion dollar health care bill and government spending, holding signs protesting Barack Obama’s agenda while aiming chants of “you work for us” at the Capitol building. . The gathering was organized by local Tea Party groups around […]
Their big protest today of the new health care bill netted 10 people! That’s this “big wind of change” the people like Tweety just love talking about.
Following up on my post from the other day about the Tea Party actually hurting the GOP’s chances for picking up seats next year, we now have today’s WSJ taking a look at this very threat: he rise of conservative “tea party” activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing […]